Korg EA1 Electribe-A Analog Modeling Synthesizer

The ELECTRIBE-A is a compact analog modeling synth box that lets you create analog synthesizer, bass, and sound effect sounds simply — just tweak the knob that controls each element of the sound as on an analog synthesizer. Operation is easy and intuitive because the results of moving the knobs are reflected immediately in the sound. The sounds you create on this compact synthesizer can be input to the internal sequencer to create phrases. Learn More...

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Overall:
* * * * * * * . . . 7 out of 10
Features:
* * * * * * * . . . 7 out of 10
Quality:
* * * * * * * * . . 8 out of 10
Value:
* * * * * * . . . . 6 out of 10
Sound:
* * * * * * * . . . 7 out of 10
Support:
* * * * * * * . . . 7 out of 10

Individual User Ratings

Overall:
* * * . . . . . . . 3 out of 10
Features:
* * * * * . . . . . 5 out of 10
Quality:
* * * * * * * * . . 8 out of 10
Value:
* * * . . . . . . . 3 out of 10
Sound:
* * * * . . . . . . 4 out of 10

Feature:
it actually has a lot of features, but good luck figuring them out. Korg boasts you can plug your guitar or CD player through its effects, but that "feature" is a complete joke. You can do a bunch of stuff via MIDI, the best of which is hooking it up to other electribes or any MIDI keyboard. You can also up/download new patches via the internet, etc, etc.

Quality:
I don't know what's inside (because it sounds terrible), but externally the unit is solid and could probably take a few knocks

Value:
buying a new one of these would be a huge waste of money.

Sound:
the sound is pretty bad. I doesn't sound like a real analog synth...it sounds like a cheap casio keyboard sent through some delay and distortion and then looped

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Overall:
* * * * * * * * * . 9 out of 10
Features:
* * * * * * * * . . 8 out of 10
Quality:
* * * * * * * * . . 8 out of 10
Value:
* * * * * * * * . . 8 out of 10
Sound:
* * * * * * * * * * 10 out of 10
Support:
* * * * * * * . . . 7 out of 10

Feature:
It could really use more levels of distortion (like virus) and an LFO

Quality:
The knobs seem pretty standard and are solid. But still has an overall feel of low qualityness.

Value:
200 would seem better fit

Sound:
Regardless of its hardware limitations, this thing has a seemingly infinite sea of sounds that require incatrate computer control to unlock (software sequencer).

Support:
Tried forever to get sysex specs... had to reverse engineer w/ midiox

Overall:
I have found a few "ranges" of superb sound that is extremly close to that found in professionl quality beats.

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